A growing number of Medicare beneficiaries receive their care through HMOs and PPOs, known as Medicare Advantage plans; yet, little is known about the size and scope of the provider networks available to beneficiaries enrolled in these plans. Beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans can face significant expense if treated by an out-of-network provider, except in emergencies.

The Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners today issued an alert to taxpayers and tax professionals to be on guard against fake emails purporting to contain an IRS tax bill related to the Affordable Care Act.

While health care has not been central to the 2016 presidential campaign, the election's outcome will be a major determining factor in the country's future health care policy. A new summary and side-by-side comparison from the Kaiser Family Foundation provide a snapshot of the positions of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on seven health care topics that have garnered attention this year.

Caring for aging loved ones means eventually facing the prospect of their death. What happens when a person dies? What does it feel like to die? This video, featured in The Atlantic last week, attempts to explain.

Where you live plays a big role in staying independent as you age. Now researchers say an innovative program that combined home fix-ups and visits from occupational therapists and nurses improved low-income seniors' ability to care for themselves in their own homes.

The rate of suicides is increasing, especially among middle aged and elderly veterans. This article offers facts and data about suicide and outlines steps the VA is taking to prevent suicide among veterans.

What happens when big business gets into the business of providing home care to keep older and disabled people out of nursing homes? As venture capital pours into for-profit companies entering this market, worries grow that quality of care will suffer.

Geriatric emergency rooms, which are slowly spreading across the country, provide seniors with more expertise from physicians, nurses and others trained specifically to diagnose and care for the elderly, researchers said.